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JULIUS MULLER (18oi-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 963 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIUS See also:MULLER (18oi-1878)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Brieg on the loth of See also:April 18o, . He studied at See also:Breslau, See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin, first See also:law, then See also:theology; and in 1839 became See also:professor ordinarius of theology at See also:Halle (1839) . In 1848 he helped to found the See also:Deutsch-evang . Kirchentag, and two years later founded and edited (1850-1861), with See also:Neander and K . I . See also:Nitzsch, the Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir christliche Wissenschaft and christliches Leben . He died at Halle on the 27th of See also:September 1878 . A See also:disciple of Neander and friend of See also:Richard See also:Rothe, See also:Muller bitterly opposed the See also:philosophy of See also:Hegel and the See also:criticism of F . C . See also:Baur . His See also:book, Uber den Gegensatz See also:des Protestantismus and des Catholicismus (1833), called forth a reply from Baur, and he was one of those who attacked D . See also:Strauss's See also:Life of Jesus .

In 1846 he had been deputed to attend the See also:

General Evangelical See also:Synod at Berlin . Here he supported the Consensus-See also:Union, and afterwards defended himself in the See also:pamphlets See also:Die erste Generalsynode der evang . Landeskirche Preussen (1847) and Die evangelische Union, ihr Wesen and gottliches Recht (1854) . His See also:chief See also:work, however, was Die christliche Lehre der Siinde (2 vols., 1839; 5th ed., 1867; Eng. trans. from 5th ed.), in which he carried See also:scholasticism so far as " to revive the See also:ancient Gnostic theory of the fall of See also:man before all See also:time, a theory which found no favour amongst his theological See also:friends " (See also:Otto Pfieiderer) . See also:Miller's other See also:works include Dogmat . Abhandlungen (187o), and Das christliche Leben (3rd ed., 1847) . See M . Kahler, See also:Julius Muller (1878); L . See also:Schultze, Julius Muller (1879) and Julius Muller als Ethiker (1895) .

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